Lake County inmate asks for brief release to attend wedding

LAKEPORT -- The man convicted of causing a triple-fatal car crash near Twin Lakes in January has asked the court to temporarily release him from jail so he can go to his daughter's wedding.

Michael James Wright, 50, was sentenced to one year in the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility on Sept. 25 after pleading no contest to three misdemeanor counts of gross vehicular manslaughter.

Wright requested to be briefly released on or about Oct. 21 so he could attend his daughter's ceremony, according to senior deputy district attorney John Langan, who received a copy of the defense motion on Sept. 28.

A court hearing is set for Oct. 15.

Authorities said Wright drove a BMW sedan about 84 mph along Highway 29 the night of Jan. 14 when he crashed into an oncoming Ford SUV.